Top Statism Quotes

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Statism Definition

(n.) The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

History is the same story with different costumes.

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less fruit than spontaneous organizations, but, again, through the legal monopoly which it deem...

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, stric...

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultim...

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and c...

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual.

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

Statism is a mental disorder, much akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil doing, and basic social and economic reality.The fireworks are the glowing tears...

As I explain in 'What It Means to be an Anarcho-Capitalist', to be an anarchist simply means you oppose aggression, and you realize the state necessarily commits aggression. If you are not an anarchis...

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason. He must be able to detect...